Lucy

The final global box office review of 2014 traces the winners, losers and trends in film worldwide … Does US box-office slump mean stagnation or rejuvenation?/ Universal has its most profitable year without a tentpole film/ China falls out of love with the historical epic

Joe Queenan: A henchman should be menacing. He’s meant to kill, torture and maim. But with John Wick and The Equalizer, we get poorly trained incompetents. Even the henchcrow in Sleeping Beauty would put them to shame